Have you ever considered a mild salt treatment to your tank? I had a similar
problem as yours with a batch of hatchery raised Golden Shiners in a tank of
mine, and added roughly a table spoon of common rock/cooking salt for every
5 gallons. The plants didn't fare so well, but eventually the fungus stopped
spreading and I only lost a few fish. Might work, but maybe its just hocus
pocus. :)

Captain Jimbo

>From: matt ashton <ashtonmj2003-in-yahoo.com>>Reply-To: nanfa-in-aquaria.net>To: nanfa-in-aquaria.net>Subject: Re: NANFA-- Bully stonecats?>Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 18:23:34 -0700 (PDT)>>I have a millenium 2000 with the oxygen injector about halfway on. I have >the largest or second largest Optima air pump connected to a sponge filter >for some extra aeration. I connected this-in-the time of the fish >arriving...so perhaps thats where something was brought in it sat dry for a >long time. Ive honestly never been on to test many parameters, much of it >out of laziness...but this is the worst die off ive ever had in my fish >keeping expeirence. I had a grass pike for a month too that was fine and >the plants were thriving. I did feed the grass pike fatheads raised in our >bioassy lab, but those water parameters are strictly watched, but it doesnt >say some parasite could not have entered that way. Either way I have half >or less of what I had after the trip which leaves one boring tank. In a >seperate email to Dan-in-Newport Aq after he told me that they had found >nematodes on his fish from the Grand...that its affected all my fish except >with stonecats, which have diffe> rent> skin/scale than the shiners and darters...could this be something not >allowing the nematode to attach by getting under the scale and then >affecting the skin if this is the cause? I am far away from the bullying >stone cats theory now...I did save and preserve my fish that have died in >methanol (which keeps color far better than ethanol) so im sure whatever >was killing them is still there.>>Todd Crail <farmertodd-in-buckeye-express.com> wrote:I would figure out what >is wrong first. I don't think it's just a case of>the violent catfish and the necrotic bacteria. Bacterial infestations like>that usually don't occur and go hog wild without something being a miss. In>fact I've seen on many occassions where this same stuff was happening, >moved>the animal to a different, thriving tank and the disease goes away, the>tissue heals. I would look-in-the O2 (you are using that air pump right?)>and wether you've grounded the tank or not. These are two common issues.>Water params might be all goofed up. I dunno. I would investigate before I>got anyone else involved though.>>----- Original Message ----->From: "matt ashton">To:>Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 8:56 AM>Subject: Re: NANFA-- Bully stonecats?>>> > I lost one greenside and the other has now started to show the same>symptoms of the whiteish pink tail and caudal fin erosion.-in-this rate ill>have nothing in a week. I dont have any other tanks so removing and >treating>isnt an immediate option. Looks like I need to go collecting again in about>a week.>/"Unless stated otherwise, comments made on this list do not necessarily>/ reflect the beliefs or goals of the North American Native Fishes>/ Association">/ This is the discussion list of the North American Native Fishes >Association>/ nanfa-in-aquaria.net. To subscribe, unsubscribe, or get help, send the word>/ subscribe, unsubscribe, or help in the body (not subject) of an email to>/ nanfa-request-in-aquaria.net. For a digest version, send the command to>/ nanfa-digest-request-in-aquaria.net instead.>/ For more information about NANFA, visit our web page, >http://www.nanfa.org>/"Unless stated otherwise, comments made on this list do not necessarily>/ reflect the beliefs or goals of the North American Native Fishes>/ Association">/ This is the discussion list of the North American Native Fishes >Association>/ nanfa-in-aquaria.net. To subscribe, unsubscribe, or get help, send the word>/ subscribe, unsubscribe, or help in the body (not subject) of an email to>/ nanfa-request-in-aquaria.net. For a digest version, send the command to>/ nanfa-digest-request-in-aquaria.net instead.>/ For more information about NANFA, visit our web page, >http://www.nanfa.org
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